Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries podcast

Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries

Coffee stories with an extra shot of history and science. Filter Stories is a podcast revealing coffee’s hidden microscopic secrets, its powerful past, and how your choice of beans impacts tens of millions of people. See the behind-the-scenes stories on Instagram @filterstoriespodcast. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to the show and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

Coffee stories with an extra shot of history and science. Filter Stories is a podcast revealing coffee’s hidden microscopic secrets, its powerful past, and how your choice of beans impacts tens of millions of people. See the behind-the-scenes stories on Instagram @filterstoriespodcast. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to the show and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!

 

#72

Coffee Quality, Part 3: When the “quality” myth hits the farm

For twenty years, the 2004 cupping form profoundly shaped the specialty coffee world.   Bu... more

08 Dec 2025

30 MINS

30:00

08 Dec 2025


#71

Coffee Quality, Part 2: How “quality” became a myth

If you ask two specialty professionals what makes a high-quality coffee, you’ll likely get... more

08 Dec 2025

25 MINS

25:33

08 Dec 2025


#70

Coffee Quality, Part 1: The birth of specialty coffee flavours

For the longest time, coffees were dull and bitter. But then a small group of pioneers cha... more

08 Dec 2025

23 MINS

23:30

08 Dec 2025


#69

How specialty coffee woke up to water’s role in flavour

For the longest time, the coffee community only cared about water’s impact ruining espress... more

28 Jul 2025

25 MINS

25:39

28 Jul 2025


#68

The two ingredients in water that ruin your coffee, and the ancient story behind them

550 million years ago, earth was perfect. We had perfect water for coffee AND we were livi... more

28 Jul 2025

38 MINS

38:40

28 Jul 2025


#67

Getting great water for coffee, step-by-step. Part 2: How to measure and treat your water

Water massively impacts your coffee’s flavours. But most of us struggle to fix our water b... more

14 Jul 2025

43 MINS

43:17

14 Jul 2025


#66

Getting great water for coffee, step-by-step. Part 1: Alkalinity, hardness and why it matters

Water massively impacts your coffee’s flavours. But most of us struggle to fix our water b... more

14 Jul 2025

26 MINS

26:20

14 Jul 2025


#65

Farm to port: why specialty costs more

Every time we open a bag of beautiful specialty coffee — like Erick Bravo’s from Finca El ... more

23 Jun 2025

54 MINS

54:19

23 Jun 2025


#64

Why one Colombian farmer chose specialty, and the other walked away

I travel to Colombia’s Huila region to answer a question that’s puzzled me for years: if s... more

09 Jun 2025

46 MINS

46:45

09 Jun 2025


#63

The hard business of selling beautiful coffee, part 2

Volume. Cheap. Lame flavours. This is the traditional way of growing coffee in Brazil, and... more

19 May 2025

39 MINS

39:02

19 May 2025


#62

The hard business of selling beautiful coffee, part 1

Volume. Cheap. Lame flavours. This is the traditional way of growing coffee in Brazil, and... more

19 May 2025

29 MINS

29:08

19 May 2025


#61

The Speed of Heat: How to roast more coffee, faster!

To roast coffee faster, you need to turn up the heat….right?   No!    In this episode, we ... more

24 Mar 2025

52 MINS

52:24

24 Mar 2025